by Catherine | Jun 26, 2013 | Somatic mamas
While we can read books, search the internet and hear from other parents, we learn most by being with our children. Who is this little one? Who am I, in my parenthood and my personhood? We each change continuously! Children’s fresh eyes on the world wake us up – and...
by Catherine | Jun 20, 2013 | Mindfulness in motion
Here I am, getting lost in the details of everyday life, having spent hours working to solve computer tech glitches. Finally I walk away from today’s unresolved problems. I feel how my mind is still caught in crunching details. I remember, hearsay — or...
by Catherine | May 29, 2012 | Child development
Young children have a mandate to master their world through direct action. How often you have you seen your toddler try to push the full shopping cart – and be crushed if you don’t let them? Push activities not only create strength, but also give your...
by Catherine | May 23, 2012 | Somatic mamas
The body-mind connection is a new idea, but it is simply naming experiences that we all have had. Babies and young children are almost always swimming blithely around in their own phenomenally developing body-mind connections, while we as adults go in and out of being...
by Catherine | May 20, 2012 | Child development
The moveable feast From your baby’s first days of swimming in utero and throughout early childhood, he is developing body maps that give him a secure sense of self – and his first math skills. As your child moves, her little brain is receiving a feast of...
